Sentences with 'sepoys'

Example sentences and phrases with the word sepoys and other words derived from it.

• « The following year, a small British force of 800 men with 2,000 Indian mercenary troops (called sepoys) defeated the prince at the Battle of Plassey, and then began the process of taking over the entire province of Bengal. »
• « However, trouble for the British was brewing in India. In 1857, Indian soldiers in the service of the British East India Company, known as sepoys, were issued new rifles whose bullet cartridges were, according to rumours circulating among the sepoys, lubricated with pig and cow fat. »
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